T HERE is a strong similarity between the modern method of erecting scaffolding and the Method of Ascent manipulation of rates...

UU NITIL now the attitude of the Road Haulage Association towards the Road Haulage Executive has been cautious, or even...

Removal .of Nuts A CCORDING to the Amal i s a Technician's gamated Engineering Work Union, the removal and replacement of six...

Of a raid on spare parts. Of new models for the Show which seem to put the cart before the horse. Of others which consign the...

Output Rate Stepped Up to 269,828 a Year : Exports Set Up New Records "'THE record-a-month activities of the British motor...

A RRANGEMENTS have been proposed to facilitate the parking of coaches during the Festival of Britain next year. Negotiations...

MR. F. C. CAHILL has retired from the board of Northern Commercial Vehicles, Ltd. MR. H. W. STEEL, manager of the Glasgow...

EINES of £5 each on four summonses were imposed recently by the Plymouth Magistrates on Western Haulage Contractors (Plymouth),...

F ROM October 12-14, a commercialvehicle rally is to be held in Paris. Organized by two of the principal French bodies...

A WARNING was given last Friday to farmers and crofters in Shetland by Mr Alex Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority,...

IN allowing the appeal of Mr. Alfred Kelsall against the 1 refusal of a B licence, the Appeal Tribunal finds that the West...

Next year's British Industries Fair will be held in London and Birmingham from April 30-May II. The Royal Society for the...

H OIDERS of C licences are to be admitted as associate members of the Hauliers' Mutual Federation. At the annual general...

A CTION by the London Transport Executive in extending its operation of contract carriages outside the originally designated...

A LTHOUGH, in the past, recomr - Imendations made by the Regional Fares Committees on fares on express services have been...

T HE Northern Licensing Authority has rejected a proposal by Cumberland County Council to enforce the use of smaller buses on...

Breaking Fresh Ground in a Valuable Market, Six Sunbeam Trolleybuses May Provoke Further Orders and the Conversion of a...

LL ORRY• drivers who give gratuitous lifts to friends or strangers, run a grave risk in the event of the passengers suffering...

A RECENT Home Office specification r - ifor a high-powered water tender was filled by a special Commer chassis with a wheelbase...

V IRTUALLY a miniature trolley jack. the Linford Handi-Jack, which weighs only 35 lb. and measures 22 ins. by 51 ins. by 71...

How a Large Grocery Concern Maintains Its Delivery Services With a Fleet of Oilers R EGULARITY of delivery is of great...

Doublethink F AILURE by the Road Haulage Executive to fulfil its promises has led the chief executive officer of the Road...

New Underfloor engined Single-decker Available with Normally Aspirated or Supercharged Oil Engine and Semi-automatic Hydraulic...

H YDRAULICALLY controlled wet-plate clutches and torque reaction brakes are features of the four - speed planetary gearbox...

B C. S. DUNBAR of To-morrow m.,nst.T. I N the past there have been two ways of becoming a transport manager. One has been to...

Our Costs Expert Discusses This Matter Further and Puts Forward the Method He Recommends as an Alternative to Usual Practice...

T 0 new cleaning compounds have I/n tested by "The Commercial Motor" and, for the purposes for which they were employed, have...

shown in patent • No. 638,301, which comes from A. Magis, Paris: Its chief aim is compactness, and this is achieved by keeping...